aktualizm

Polish

Etymology

From aktualny + -izm. First attested in 1884.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ak.tuˈa.lizm/
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  • Rhymes: -alizm
  • Syllabification: ak‧tu‧a‧lizm

Noun

aktualizm m inan

  1. (philosophy) actualism (belief that only actual things exist, and merely possible things do not)
  2. (geology) uniformitarianism (principle that natural processes operated in the past in the same way and at the same rates that they operate today)
    aktualizm geologicznygeological uniformitarianism

Declension

adjectives
adverb
nouns
verbs

References

  1. Kosmos: czasopismo Polskiego Towarzystwa Przyrodników imienia Kopernika (in Polish), number 9, 1884, page 77
  2. aktualizm in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Further reading

  • aktualizm in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • aktualizm in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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